Thursday, March 25, 2010

Introducing nightly builds and ubuntu PPA

Hello.

We're pleased to announce two things that we were constantly asked for: Nightly builds and Ubuntu PPA for 1.2 release made by Bartosz Skowron. There are no nightly build ubuntu packages (yet).

Nightly builds are what they are - pure pypy executables with JIT compiled in (for linux only now). They require either a pypy checkout or a release download. The main difference is that by default display more debugging information than release builds and that they contain recent bugfixes and improvements of course :-)

Cheers
fijal

Hello.

We're pleased to announce two things that we were constantly asked for: Nightly builds and Ubuntu PPA for 1.2 release made by Bartosz Skowron. There are no nightly build ubuntu packages (yet).

Nightly builds are what they are - pure pypy executables with JIT compiled in (for linux only now). They require either a pypy checkout or a release download. The main difference is that by default display more debugging information than release builds and that they contain recent bugfixes and improvements of course :-)

@fijal Why so? 32bit libraries are available on ubuntu (with ia32 suffix), kernel is build with 32bit support option. Don't see any problem here.I understand why not to build 64bit release - JIT is the goal.P.S. Maybe unavailable amd64 build would force someone to digg and fix that issue? =) Are there any guides available to do it?

The general answer is that both subprocess and os are written in Python (and not C), so we don't list them. However I wonder how we can list things not to confuse people who don't know that. Any ideas (listing all possible modules is a bit too much).